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The programming team behind EveryBlock, a location-specific news aggregator, has released the software's source code under the GPLv3 license. This could signal a way for the journalism industry to keep its foot in the door of local news reporting that's increasingly falling into the laps of citizen journalists.

Since the code is fairly complex, programmers will likely start out using snippets of it to create smaller projects. Though releasing the code makes it technically possible to design all sorts of geolocation apps, St. Pete Times news technologist Matt Waite says, If you think you just turn it on and put some ads on it and it will make money for you, you're high.

Web Worker Daily has a hands-on look at this week's new version 1.1 of the open source Flock browser, based on Mozilla's architecture.ﾠ

Wikia, parent of Wikipedia, has partnered with open source collaborative web media provider Kaltura to offer collaborative video for Wikiaﾒs communities. You can check out sample videos.

ITWire has an interesting multi-part prescription for how to launch and drive a successful open source project.ﾗITWire

Flock, the open source browser (based on on Mozillaﾒs Firefox architecture) that woos the social networking crowd is out with a new version 1.1. Among new features are web mail integration and Picasa integration. You can download it now....

Open-source identity community OpenLiberty.org has released code to help Java developers build privacy and security features into applications. Check it out.